#French people

Source: Neatorama When Tunisians started to become obsessed with drinking tea in the 1920s and 1930s, some French doctors had become alarmed that it might cause the collapse of Tunisian society. Today, the drink is still quite popular and locals often drink it many times a day. This was the

Author: Aurelien Breeden / Source: New York Times Christophe Archambault/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images PARIS — The rumors had been out there for years: A private Facebook group that included many up-and-coming French male journalists was behind waves of online insult, mockery and

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” the Nobel-winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska wrote in her stunning poem “Possibilities.” And why shouldn’t we? We are, after all, creatures pinned to scales of space and time far closer to those

Source: Good News Network The train, codenamed “Breeze”, will convert existing Class 321 trains, which will reengineer some of the UK’s most reliable rolling stock and create a clean train for the modern age. These trains could run across the UK as early as 2022, emitting only water and zero

Source: Good News Network 53 years ago today, The Beatles’ reached No.1 on the US album chart with their groundbreaking Rubber Soul album. Their 7th chart–topping LP, it stayed on the Billboard list for 56 weeks, with album sales that were unprecedented. At the same time, their single ‘We Can